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Charles F. Brush

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Charles Francis Brush (March 17, 1849 – June 15, 1929) was an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. [1]

62 relations: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Revolution, Antonio Pacinotti, Arc lamp, Brush Electrical Machines, Case Western Reserve University, Charles F. Brush High School, Cleveland, Continental Congress, Defunct townships of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Doctor of Philosophy, Dudley–Winthrop family, Electric generator, Electric power transmission, Electric utility, Electromagnetic radiation, Engineer, Entrepreneurship, Euclid Avenue (Cleveland), Euclid, Ohio, Franklin Institute, Franklin Medal, General Electric, George Phillips (Watertown), Gramme machine, Henry Wisner, Humphry Davy, Hydroelectricity, Hydrogen, IEEE Edison Medal, Internet Archive, Inventor, Lake View Cemetery, Le Sage's theory of gravitation, Legion of Honour, Lyndhurst, Ohio, Marian Smoluchowski, Minneapolis, North British Academy of Arts, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Pearl Street Station, Philadelphia, Philanthropy, Richfield, Ohio, Rumford Prize, Saint Anthony Falls, Samuel Appleton (born 1625), Summit Metro Parks, Thomas Cornell (settler), ..., Thomas Edison, Thomson-Houston Electric Company, United States, United States dollar, University of Michigan, USS Brush, Wanamaker's, Water vapor, Watertown, Massachusetts, Wind turbine, Yablochkov candle, Zénobe Gramme. Expand index (12 more) »

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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American Revolution

The American Revolution was a colonial revolt that took place between 1765 and 1783.

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Antonio Pacinotti

Antonio Pacinotti (17 June 1841 – 24 March 1912) was an Italian physicist, who was Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa.

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Arc lamp

An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc).

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Brush Electrical Machines

Brush Electrical Machines is a manufacturer of electrical generators typically for gas turbine and steam turbine driven applications.

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Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University (also known as Case Western Reserve, Case Western, Case, and CWRU) is a private doctorate-granting university in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Charles F. Brush High School

Charles F. Brush High School is a public high school in Lyndhurst, Ohio.

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Cleveland

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga County.

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Continental Congress

The Continental Congress, also known as the Philadelphia Congress, was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies.

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Defunct townships of Cuyahoga County, Ohio

Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States is divided into twenty-one townships.

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Delta Kappa Epsilon

Delta Kappa Epsilon (ΔΚΕ), commonly known as DKE or Deke, is one of the oldest North American fraternities, with 56 active chapters across America and Canada.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or Ph.D.; Latin Philosophiae doctor) is the highest academic degree awarded by universities in most countries.

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Dudley–Winthrop family

The Dudley–Winthrop family is an American political family.

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Electric generator

In electricity generation, a generator is a device that converts motive power (mechanical energy) into electrical power for use in an external circuit.

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Electric power transmission

Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation.

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Electric utility

An electric utility is a company in the electric power industry (often a public utility) that engages in electricity generation and distribution of electricity for sale generally in a regulated market.

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Electromagnetic radiation

In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EM radiation or EMR) refers to the waves (or their quanta, photons) of the electromagnetic field, propagating (radiating) through space-time, carrying electromagnetic radiant energy.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.

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Euclid Avenue (Cleveland)

Euclid Avenue is a major street in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Euclid, Ohio

Euclid is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.

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Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute is a science museum and the center of science education and research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Franklin Medal

The Franklin Medal was a science award presented from 1915 through 1997 by the Franklin Institute located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. It was founded in 1914 by Samuel Insull.

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General Electric

General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate incorporated in New York and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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George Phillips (Watertown)

Reverend George Phillips (born Raynham, Norfolk England approx. 1593 – July 1, 1644) led, along with Richard Saltonstall, a group of English settlers up the Charles River to settle in what is now Watertown, Massachusetts in 1630.

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Gramme machine

A Gramme machine, Gramme ring, Gramme magneto, or Gramme dynamo is an electrical generator that produces direct current, named for its Belgian inventor, Zénobe Gramme, and was built as either a dynamo or a magneto.

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Henry Wisner

Henry Wisner (c. 1720 – March 4, 1790) was an American miller from Goshen, New York.

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Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for isolating, using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is electricity produced from hydropower.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element with symbol H and atomic number 1.

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IEEE Edison Medal

The IEEE Edison Medal is presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) "for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical science, electrical engineering or the electrical arts." It is the oldest and most coveted medal in this field of engineering in the United States.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

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Inventor

An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method, form, device or other useful means that becomes known as an invention.

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Lake View Cemetery

Lake View Cemetery is on the east side of Cleveland, Ohio, along the East Cleveland and Cleveland Heights borders.

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Le Sage's theory of gravitation

Le Sage's theory of gravitation is a kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges-Louis Le Sage in 1748.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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Lyndhurst, Ohio

Lyndhurst is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and an eastern suburb of Cleveland.

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Marian Smoluchowski

Marian Smoluchowski (28 May 1872 – 5 September 1917) was a Polish physicist who worked in the Polish territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.

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North British Academy of Arts

The North British Academy of Arts (1908 - 1924) was an art institution of Newcastle upon Tyne in northern England.

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Pacific Gas and Electric Company

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an investor-owned utility (IOU) with publicly traded stock that is headquartered in the Pacific Gas & Electric Building in San Francisco.

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Pearl Street Station

Pearl Street Station was the first commercial central power plant in the US.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy means the love of humanity.

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Richfield, Ohio

Richfield is a village in Summit County, Ohio, United States.

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Rumford Prize

Founded in 1796, the Rumford Prize, awarded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is one of the oldest scientific prizes in the United States.

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Saint Anthony Falls

Saint Anthony Falls or the Falls of Saint Anthony, located northeast of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the only natural major waterfall on the Upper Mississippi River.

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Samuel Appleton (born 1625)

Samuel Appleton (1625 – May 15, 1696) was a military and government leader in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay.

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Summit Metro Parks

Summit Metro Parks is a Metroparks system serving the citizens of Summit County, Ohio by managing in 16 developed parks, six conservation areas and more than of trails, with of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail.

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Thomas Cornell (settler)

Thomas Cornell, Sr (c. 1595 – c. 1655) was one of the earliest settlers of Boston (1638), Rhode Island (1643) and the Bronx and a contemporary of Roger Williams and the family of Anne Hutchinson.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.

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Thomson-Houston Electric Company

The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was a manufacturing company which was one of the precursors of the General Electric company.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (UM, U-M, U of M, or UMich), often simply referred to as Michigan, is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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USS Brush

USS Brush (DD-745), an, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Charles Brush, an American inventor and philanthropist.

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Wanamaker's

John Wanamaker Department Store was the first department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the first department stores in the United States.

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Water vapor

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Watertown, Massachusetts

The Town of Watertown is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Wind turbine

A wind turbine is a device that converts the wind's kinetic energy into electrical energy.

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Yablochkov candle

A Yablochkov candle (sometimes electric candle) is a type of electric carbon arc lamp, invented in 1876 by Pavel Yablochkov.

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Zénobe Gramme

Zénobe Théophile Gramme (4 April 1826 – 20 January 1901) was a Belgian electrical engineer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Brush

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